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> "We put the dot in dot-com" - ??? Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one. For all you tech people like me that have problem
by dottrap 7y ago
> "We put the dot in dot-com" - ???
Yes, it's marketing fluff (as with any marketing), but I liked that one.
For all you tech people like me that have problems answering to non-techie family members what you do, I thought that was an example of a beautiful succinct answer that still conveyed enough of an idea to be satisfying to laymen.
As for one I really hated from Sun: "Java Desktop System", which was just a distro with GNOME, and had nothing to do with Java.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoYesss... The name Java Desktop System made my soul hurt. The funny thing though is it was an okay GUI environment. Conservative and thoughtful. It was 10 years late to the GUI party though :)
- bch 7y agoWasn’t that implying their infra running the implicit “.” at the end of “.com” (I know, it’s literally not what the copy says)? I.e. the internet .com resolving depended on Sun.[0][1] [0] https://serverfault.com/questions/134611/why-no-final-dot-for-domain-names https://serverfault.com/questions/134611/why-no-final-dot-fo... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
- thaumasiotes 7y agoI like the idea that their slogan was really "we put the second dot in dot-com-dot". "You know, the one you've never heard of."